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Thursday, August 5, 2010

Coconut Cookies

Ever since I started baking Cookies,I've been looking for that perfect Coconut cookie recipe,which tastes like real coconut and not the coconut flavoured types.I have tried incorporating dessicated coconut in my basic cookie recipe but the flavour got lost somewhere in between.It never ever struck me that I should add real coconut if I need the real flavour..duh!!

I had some grated coconut in abundance sitting pretty in the refrigerator for some time and I was looking for recipes with which I could finish the whole batch.Initially thought of making Coconut Barfi,something which I learnt to make at a very young age and for the same reason,a very fool proof recipe.But then I remembered this recipe which I had seen at Anushruti's blog.Had bookmarked this ages ago.

Kept out the butter and measured out rest of the ingredients and since I had the coconut grated and ready,it got done in a jiffy and was a breeze to make.I wanted it to be fat and round,since didn't flatten it.The resulting cookie was a mix between looks of a Nankhatai and tastes of Coconut barfi,yes-surprisingly!!

Cookies have come out well. I add some corn flour/koovapodi too to make it crunchy. I have been trying to get the kind that we get here in bakeries which has more of cooconut and just enough flour for binding.

I love baking cookies and these are my absolute favourite. I can tell by a glance that these are the perfect little coco bites I have been looking for so many months. gonna make it right away. thanks for sharing. will let you know tomorrow how it turned out.